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One thing that is holding many of us back is that we think our skills only enable us to be lawyers. We have uncertainty around how we can actually use our legal skills in a non-legal job. We don’t know which skills are transferable. And this makes us feel that what we know is only [...]

I take the subway to my office each morning. In San Francisco, public transportation is called the MUNI. I catch my MUNI train at the West Portal Station and ride underground to the Embarcadero. Usually it’s uneventful. Trains run (fairly) on time and it gets you where you need to go. And then there are [...]

Recently I put together a survey for readers to answer a few questions. I wanted to get an idea of what’s top of mind for all of us, what types of issues we’re dealing with, and what new products or services we all thought might be best for us all. You can see the survey [...]

My wife and my kids ice skate. And there is nothing I can do about it. I do not know how to ice skate. And I’m actually kind of afraid of it. I love physical activities and playing sports. But growing up in San Francisco, there weren’t many ice skating rinks. There was one dilapidated [...]

When Casey asked me to write a blog for Leave Law Behind, I asked myself what would be most helpful to the LLB community. Having interviewed hundreds of former lawyers, and profiling 30 of them in my book, Life After Law: Finding Work You Love with the JD You Have, I thought it might be [...]

Okay, quick test. What is 9X9? 5X3? 7X6? 8X8? 13X8? Pretty easy those first four multiplication questions, but that last one, hmm. Had to think about it, didn’t you. Here’s how I finally figured it out: 13 times 10 is 130, and 8 is 2 less than 10, so I’ll subtract 13 X 2 which [...]

For so long, we were normal. Ever since we could remember, we got good grades. We did well at our extracurricular activities. We had energy, independence, ambition, goals. We happily did what we were told. We pleased most everyone. We were liked. We moved through life at a nice clip. We had a plan. And [...]

When I speak with a prospective coaching client, I make it a point to discuss in detail how we actually (step by step) leave the law behind. This is because we often think leaving the law cannot be that easy. We think we can’t do this. We think we can’t excel. We think it won’t [...]

Today, I want to introduce you to a job. It is a legal job as an attorney for a cool startup called Hire an Esquire. The description and hiring manager Jules Miller’s contact info is at the end of this post. For some of us, this could be the legal job we’ve always wanted that [...]

Leaving the law It was in 2004 that I really left the law. That is when I left my in-house job at Workshare. The job was too reactive – and not proactive enough – for me (I was tasked with creating the legal framework to support initiatives created by Sales or Business Development), I had [...]